Quote: “As soon as the first notes crashed out, the audience showed signs of discomfort, which gave rise to a panic before a verse of the Anthem was complete. Over 100 feet tall! A whole orchestra in one horn! Gentelmane in the back, you’ll want to hear this! Hear the greatest achievement in sound. “Step right up, step right up ladies and gentleman. Supposedly, the first appearance of a noise that could make you lose bowel function came from a spoof article in the New Scientist from the 1970’s, concerning a fictional 110-foot wide speaker in Victorian England called the “Collosophone” which, during a recitation of the national anthem caused the entire audience to…well, you know. Point it in the direction of the enemy trenches and instantly you have a whole army of people too sick to fight. A non-lethal weapon like this deployed on a battlefield would be highly advantageous. You can imagine where the government angle might come in. So it’s hypothesized that a sound with enough power, at frequencies somewhere between 5Hz and 9Hz, so the theory goes, could produce the intestine-twisting sound. The air, the ground, the tissue in your body.
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Sound is after all a physical thing: it’s a series of waves moving molecules in a medium. It’s why you can feel the bass of that loud concert in your chest. The idea is that frequencies below that which humans can hear, frequencies lower than 20Hz, also known as “infrasound,” still affect the body. But airplanes taking off and loud rock concerts live at about that range. The National Institute of Health warns that prolonged exposure to sounds over 120 decibels can result in permanent hearing loss. So where did this strange myth come from? Well, it’s not much of stretch to imagine sound as being potentially harmful. You might remember this episode of South Park, where Cartman plays a flute and finds The Brown Noise, to comedic effect. Sometimes it involves an instrument and an unsuspecting crowd.
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Sometimes it’s used as some kind of weapon. It’s a myth, borne from legend and hearsay, but a fun one, with a twinge of military history thrown in. Episodes of Archer, The League, Tim and Eric, and others, all feature some version of the unfortunate tone as plot devices. But it shows in up in fiction every once in a while. It’s called, disgustingly, The Brown Note. A note so low, it (according to legend) vibrates the inside of your body in such a way that it forces an urgent trip to the bathroom. I’m talking about a niche conspiracy theory about this hypothetical frequency that when played by an instrument or a weapon… makes you poop your pants.
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That’s just sort of a representation of what it might sound like…something low and kinda disturbing. What if I told you there was a noise…so intense…that it could send you to the bathroom with basically instant diarrhea? I would say, don’t believe me. A mystery note that makes you poop your pants? A 100-foot Victorian loudspeaker that sent an entire crowd to the bathroom? What about an airplane so loud, it could make you throw up? The legend of The Brown Note.